Possession (or Cattle of the Gods)

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Title

Possession (or Cattle of the Gods)

Subject

Ballets

Description

Typescript draft of a script for a ballet entitled Possession
( or cattle of the Gods), (from 'Cattle Raid of Cooley' as told by Eleanor Hull) written by Teresa Deevy, and containing a list of characters to the front of the manuscript. It begins: 'The scene is a great plain in Connaught'. Document is paginated and contains a note handwritten in ink by [ Deevy ] which reads ' These "bulls" are - according to Irish legend, " of the Gods" + are sent on earth as two warring spirits, - always bringing death + disaster - they have come as ravens - as swineherds etc - etc - always "spirits of conflict".

Creator

Deevy, Teresa, 1894 - 1963

Date

N/A

Contributor

Rights

Image and content copyright NUI Maynooth Library. All works by Teresa Deevy copyright the Teresa Deevy estate. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Please use the following attribution when citing this work: Copyright NUI Maynooth.